In Memory Of
DADFORD, ERNEST JOHN EMMETT
Service Details
Age:
33
Date of Birth:
1910-09-05
Service No:
214599V
Rank:
Corporal
Regiment:
Special Service Battalion, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
1945-04-19
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, when his Stuart tank overturned during the advance toward the Reno River, in the vicinity of Pradura
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
VI, F, 6.
Cemetery:
CASTIGLIONE SOUTH AFRICAN CEMETERY
Country:
Italy
Additional Information
Son of George E. and Maude Elizabeth (nee McGuinness) Dadford. Husband of Edna Annie Emmett Dadford (nee Yallup), of 25, East Grove, Railway Camp, Mafeking, Cape Province. Born in Kimberley. A bricklayer. He had 2 sons.
